Arts & Crafts | Montessori Preschool | Fullerton | La Habra | La Mirada | Buena Park

Arts and Crafts

Arts and craft cross over to all the work the child is doing in the room. The teacher encourages illustration and decoration of work done in the math, language, science, and geography area. They make booklets of words learned, math problems completed, maps and all the land and water forms. Leaves are collected labeled and illustrated. Illustrating work after completing it gives the child a deep sense of joy; it also encourages work to be beautiful and tidy. The small child sometimes does not have sufficient words to express strong emotion, but can do this through painting, drawing and illustrating work. All holidays are an opportunity for creative activity, and all holidays have an activity relating to it.
The children really enjoy making simple gifts to take home especially at Christmas, mothers and fathers day. For the child it is just an enjoyable experience, but a very important lesson is being learned, a subliminal message that gift giving need not involve great expense.